| 释义 |
Solo, n.2|ˈsəʊləʊ|
The name of a river in Java, used attrib. with reference to a neanderthaloid fossil hominid, Homo soloensis, known from skulls discovered at Ngandong in the valley of the Solo river in 1931.
1932Discovery Aug. 240/2 A new type of early man..is to be called ‘Solo Man’ from the name of the river in the Pleistocene gravels of which the skull was found. 1951Anthrop. Papers Amer. Mus. XLIII. 205 (title) Morphology of Solo Man. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & Human Origins xi. 185/1 The Solo skulls..appear to be more primitive than Neandertal. Ibid., Solo Man tends to have an occipital torus higher on the skull than did the African Neandertals. 1978B. G. Campbell W. E. Le Gros Clark's Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution (ed. 3) iii. 120 The main problem in this connection lies in the status of the Solo population. |